Do we really need another music blog?

I’ve been a fan of music since I was in the single digits and I’ll listen to just about anything that’s good.

Hmm, ‘good’ is a dangerous and subjective term I know, but it’s the best way I can put it.

I did the radio DJ thing in college which really opened my eyes to the depth and variety of music out there and gave me a chance to help share the gems I found with other people via the airwaves. After I graduated I did freelance music writing on the side for about 5 years. During that time I reviewed albums and live shows and interviewed bands for Interface, Bomb Threat!, Outburn, DIW, The Northeast Performer, and even The Boston Phoenix. It was great, but about 3 years ago I was overwhelmed with trying to keep up with whatever indie band was the next new thing. I decided to call it quits, but that didn’t mean I stopped listening to and buying too much music.

So now I decided to start this page again and be in control of what I’m reviewing. You won’t see negative reviews much here because what I’m trying to do is guide people to what I think are good albums that deserve discovery. To that end the overwhelming majority of what I will review is going to be old. And I don’t just mean an album that released a couple of months ago, I mean years old. Albums that I feel stand the test of time.

You might ask why bother about albums that old and my answer would be that more than likely they’re something that people have missed. Think about the sheer amount of music that gets released from both majors, indies, and even self-released these days. Unless you only focus on a single genre or two there’s no way to cath them all. [If you are looking for up to the minute stuff I've got links to sites that I think are top notch in that department.]

Sure if I come across something new that really sticks with me you’ll read about it here, but for the most part the stuff I’ll be talking about are from days past. The wonderful and terrible thing about music is it never stops. I would say that for every band I picked up a new album from that I truly loved it lead me to at least two more bands and more times than not those secondary bands’ albums were a couple of years old.

And so goes the ever unpeeling onion of music. Now, kick back, look around, and I hope I can lead you to an album you’ve never heard before.

John “JR” Lefler

November 2006

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